St. Bernard Parish, LA
The federal environmental record for St. Bernard Parish (population 44,463): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
1
federal cleanup sites
0
PFAS-detecting water systems
4
TRI facilities
3
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
No public water system serving St. Bernard reported a PFAS detection in the UCMR5 national testing round. Systems serving under 3,300 people were only sampled in part, so absence from this table is not proof of absence in the water.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
4 facilities in St. Bernard filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 548k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHALMETTE REFINING LLC | CHALMETTE | Hydrogen cyanide, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 426k lb |
| VALERO REFINING - MERAUX LLC MERAUX REFINERY | MERAUX | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Ammonia | 117k lb |
| ENERGY TRANSFER GEISMAR OLEFINS LLC - CHALMETTE GAS PROCESSI | CHALMETTE | Propylene, Benzene | 5k lb |
| RAIN CII CARBON LLC | CHALMETTE | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Lead compounds | 457 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 110 tank facilities in St. Bernard: 91 tanks in service and 275 closed. 69 fuel releases are on record, of which 3 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps St. Bernard as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.
The record for one specific address
County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for St. Bernard, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
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